Woman? Madam?
Wait! Is there something wrong with Lepnobet's eyes that he can't tell he's a man?
Xiao Tangqiu was about to open his mouth to refute, but when he took a closer look at Lepnobet in front of him, he was speechless. Lepnobet was actually wearing a white wedding dress, a wig and makeup. At first glance, he almost thought Lili Marlene had walked out of a painting.
Lepnobet, the "groom", is more like a bride than he, the "bride"!
A wedding where two grown men wear wedding dresses at the same time...what kind of weird cross-dressing wedding is this!
Although Lepnobet is middle-aged, there is no sense of incongruity when he puts on a wedding dress and a wig, and he looks just like Lili Marlene in the painting.
It was not until this moment that Xiao Tangqiu deeply realized that neither Maria nor Veronica was as similar to "Lili Marlene" as Lepnobet himself, because "Lili Marlene" was Lepnobet himself from beginning to end!
Xiao Tangqiu forced himself to calm down and asked Lepnobet: "What do you want to do?"
Since Lilimaren never existed and was only a person in Lepnobet's imagination, what on earth did Lepnobet want to do by killing so many people, including his mother, wife, daughter, and even the entire residents of the town of Dimon?
Lepnobet looked at him gloomily: "My dear, after you become my wife, you will have everything of mine. Of course, you will also become a part of me..."
"You will become a part of me" is an extremely romantic phrase, but when it comes out of Lepnobet's mouth, it sounds very strange and mysterious, which makes people feel cold.
Xiao Tangqiu didn't think that "You will become a part of me" was a romantic statement to Lepnobet... He thought it should be a realistic statement. He felt that he should not become a part of Lepnobet in a symbolic sense, but a part of Lepnobet in a real sense.
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly understood something, and immediately he felt unwell. At this moment, he heard Lepnobet sneer and say, "Dear, we will definitely be the most beautiful brides tonight. Look, so many people are coming to our wedding..."
We will definitely be the most beautiful bride tonight...
us……
He thought more and more about it, and found that the originally empty church had been filled up without him noticing. Many people were sitting on the dusty benches, and many people were constantly walking into the church.
Those people are not "people" of course, but a group of puppets with stiff expressions and slow movements. These poor residents of Dimon Town may have never done anything bad in their lives, but because of their ignorant ancestors hundreds of years ago, they were made into puppets alive by the cruel owner of the castle, and turned from living people into puppets that have lost their self-awareness.
The puppet residents sat down stiffly on the church benches, as if they were really guests attending a wedding. In addition to some with intact limbs, there were many puppet residents with broken arms and legs, rotten skin, and even only bones left. Xiao Tangqiu guessed that those might be the bodies dug out by Lepnobet from the cemetery in Dimon Town. Maybe among them were the residents who burned Lilimaren to death hundreds of years ago.
Soon, the originally empty church was filled with puppet residents who came to attend the wedding. However, such a "lively" wedding did not make Xiao Tangqiu feel warm at all. He only felt creepy and his back was cold.
The puppet residents had stiff expressions and empty eyes. He didn't feel like he was attending a grand wedding at all, but rather a funeral in a cemetery.
—and quite possibly his own funeral.
At this moment, Lepnobet suddenly took out a book. The book was very thick, with a black cover and mysterious golden patterns on it.
Xiao Tangqiu instantly recognized that the book was the one that Shen Yuan had read several times in front of him. He was stunned. Could it be that Lepnobet had stolen the book from Shen Yuan?
Because Lepnobet was standing right in front of him, Xiao Tangqiu saw the pattern on the cover of the book up close for the first time. Those golden patterns made him feel strange yet familiar, and he soon recognized them - those golden patterns were clearly a large group of tangled and intertwined tail-biting snakes!
That is Ouroboros, the World Serpent.
Ouroboros again.
Before Xiao Tangqiu could carefully examine the Ouroboros pattern on the cover of the book, Lepnobet had already flipped open the book. He let out a strange and eerie laugh from his throat: "...Don't worry, dear, you will soon become a part of my body..."
Xiao Tangqiu laughed dryly: "Can I refuse?"
"Why would you refuse?" Lepnobet sneered, "Come, become a part of me. Your body and soul will become a part of me, a part of her..."
Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously took a few steps back, but before he could turn around and run away, his feet were suddenly grabbed by something. He looked down and saw countless puppet hands stretching out from under the church, firmly grabbing his feet.
Xiao Tangqiu was unable to move and struggled desperately, but the hands that stretched out from the ground were extremely powerful and held him tightly like iron clamps.
Lepnobet lowered his head and flipped through the book, as if looking for something. He soon stopped at a page and said, "Found it..."
His voice was gloomy and cold, and every word was filled with cruelty: "...The devil's sacrifice...sacrifice your souls...will summon her spirit back to the world..."
Xiao Tangqiu struggled violently, and at the same time, his brain started to work rapidly. Lepnobet's purpose was already very clear. This terrible guy planned to sacrifice his soul!
And it's probably not just his soul, it might also include the souls of those dead players and veteran players like Shen Yuan! Lepnobet wants to use all of their souls as sacrifice to summon the ghost of "Lili Marlene"!
Lepnobet sacrificed so many of them, including his own relatives and the entire population of Dimon Town, just to summon the ghost of a woman he imagined... This guy is completely crazy!
Xiao Tangqiu was filled with fear and despair. He was now in a much more desperate mood than in the previous copy. Although Fang Lan in the previous copy was also very scary, she was not invincible after all. However, Lepnobet in this copy was so powerful that he felt it was impossible to defeat her... Is this the gap between D-level tasks and S-level tasks?
He couldn't help but think of Yun Jizhou who suddenly woke up at the end of the previous copy. When he was about to be killed by Yun Jizhou, his mood seemed to be similar to now, with despair in his fear. He didn't even have the courage to struggle, and could only hate his own fragility and insignificance.
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